Previously, we explored this abandoned Gothic mansion and heard the shocking story of its end from a descendent of the estate
staff
Today we are taking you deep inside to explore. It's never recorded dark maze lake cellars
Overgrown out buildings and it's violent last days
We returned to the small hole under an old stair the only visible way into this underground
I'm
Happy to share this with you today
As I have only seen a few short videos of this location in existence and none of the basements
This may be the first online video of them
It's very dark below and immediately in view is a carved fireplace and hallway
Various collapsing entrances spill bricks into their doorways
Chambers with windows into other halls offer a confusing option of where to go next
At the branch light spills from a rusted grade above
Into the open a courtyard leads again into passages that continue into darkness and great TLAs holes in the floor
Dropped to old plumbing shafts
Another dark window to a room leads to a passage beyond the floor becomes deep with mud and fearing more holes
We turn around
Looking up at the finely carved pillars. It is brought to mind again
How could a house like this meet the violent end? The caretaker had told us the story
Oh, I've been shocked to find that many people in conversations. I had saw the houses. I visited as things to be ignored
Forgotten or they just weren't sure why I'd visited them in the first place
Some even told me the people in them were only bad people and deserved anything bad that happened to them
I soon found that in fact these types of houses
Represented foremost in Ireland at the time the very stronghold of the landlord class
These owning families were normally Protestants and ruled over their Catholic servants, they by extension
belonged to the Imperial British rule in
1919 to 1921 the IRA was one faction that fought the Irish war of independence against the British
Which ended with a treaty that created the Irish Free State?
the IRA was later split on this decision and some continued to fight afterwards against the Free State from 1922 to
1923
as part of their guerrilla campaign
They targeted the big houses of the landed gentry who controlled some 30% of Ireland's lands at the time
Some 200 great houses were put to the torch until the end of the fighting in May of 1923
in the end
I found this very house had been built and owned by an absentee landlord who lived in England his representative was widely hated as
When his Protestant tenants could not pay rent he would cover for them
But of Catholic tenants missed rent they would be evicted even in the worst of the famine years
His nephew had inherited it and lived in another County
shortly before the burning of the house
There were just three female and one male servant watching the place for him and they had included the relatives of the very man
We spoke to earlier as the tit-for-tat house burnings continued between the IRA and the British Army
One fateful winter night mere months before the end of the fighting
Some staff were woken up and held at gunpoint by the IRA at a small house on the estate
The leader had thought the smaller house was the mansion and ordered it burned
They soon realized the mistake and found the mansion and set it ablaze in
Hours one of the most unique and heavily ornamented mansions in Ireland was in ruins
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Large tunnel connects the courtyards with passages leading in a circle around in
These are a number of small grooms or a captured intact bottle in the wine cellar
Still sitting there after a hundred years
As we continue to loop through the passages to the main tunnel and second courtyard
The place becomes a mirror of itself we find again the same fireplace where we started
The main tunnel entrance is choked with refuse and rubble
Weird side alcoves lead nowhere
Second courtyards vine walls tower far above us
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Second entrance leads to more flooded out passages up an embankment the outer courtyard awaits
I've heard vague information about a chapel and mausoleum in the area
A single tree grows from what may have been a small gatehouse?
A hole in the ground hints at the passages reaching much further than was immediately apparent in this case a good side to watch for
Weak spots. Underfoot old walls marked the outer boundaries and mixed in the vines. You can just make out hidden structures
Inside a fallin stone building is a rack with rusted tools easily a hundred years old themselves a
Hole in the bushes is the only sign of an old path
Ask where fallen stone appears to be an old grave
To the right what has to be the family mausoleum rain begins to fall as does the darkness?
The building has no entrance other than some small windows
A peek inside shows that if there were caskets there now long gone
With the Sun fading we head back into the courtyard to examine the remaining structures
This small building may have been a chapel as its wrought-iron stands seemed too small to be related to horses or tools
Having satisfied the
Exploration of most of the site we head back towards the money path. We first took in
The end this place may not be truly haunted by a servant ghost in a burning window
But by a very tangible and tragic past caused by bitter conflicts that still haunt the land today
The people who once stood watching their home and workplace
Burn on a cold winter's night and those that burned it as a symbol of tyranny and repression are all now gone
The ruin now sits alone in a sea of thorn bushes
Mossy trees and its own fallen grandeur that we've shared with you today
I hope you've enjoyed the truth into its lost history
And I'm glad to have had the chance to show this place for the first time to all of you
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